Pope
John Paul II passed away this evening in his papal apartments in Vatican
City at 9:37 pm. The Pope's 26 year legacy will long be remembered by
the world for the many good works he did and for his unwavering stand
against sodomy, homosexual marriage and abortion. John Paul II was the
most traveled of popes, visiting 170 countries and logging over one million
miles. He brought joy and hope to all where ever he went and was much
loved throughout his reign which was attributed to his great charisma.

The
Holy Father has been given credit for playing a large part in bringing
down communism in Europe. In his best seller, The Keys of this Blood
- Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New
World Order, Malachi Martin (now deceased), a former Jesuit and professor
at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute, wrote in this 1990 geopolitical
book of the "three way contest unfolding among the global powers - the
Soviet Union Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the capitalist nations of the West,
and the Pope's own universal Roman Church - a winner-take-all race against
time and each other to establish, maintain and control the first one-world
government that has ever existed on the face of the earth."

This
highly acclaimed book states on pages 15-16: "Willing or not, ready or
not, we are all involved in an all-out, no-holds-barred, three-way global
competition. Most of us are not competitors, however, we are the stakes.
For the competition is about who will establish the first one-world system
of government that has ever existed in the society of nations. It is about
who will hold and wield the dual power of authority and control over each
of us as individuals and over all of us together as a community...

"The
competition is all-out because, now that it has started, there is no way
it can be reversed or called off. No holds barred because, once the competition
has been decided, the world and all that's in it - our way of life as
individuals and as citizens of the nations; our families and our jobs;
our trade and commerce and money; our educational systems and our religious
and our cultures; even the badges of our national identity, which most
of us have always taken for granted - all will have been powerfully and
radically altered forever. No one can be exempted from its effects. No
sector of our lives will remain untouched.

"The
competition began and continues as a three-way affair because that is
the number of rivals with sufficient resources to establish and maintain
a new world order....Ten years before this competition became manifest
to the world at large, the man who was destined to become the first, the
most unexpected and, for some at least, the most unwelcome competitor
of all in this end game spoke openly about what he saw down this road
even then.

"Toward
the end of an extended visit to America in 1976, an obscure Polish archbishop
from Krakow by the name of Karol Wojtyla stood before an audience in New
York City and made one of the most prophetic speeches ever given. "We
are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation
humanity has gone through," he said, "...a test of two thousand years
of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for
human dignity, individual rights and the rights of nation." But he chided
his listeners on that September day, "..wide circles of American society
and wide circles of Christian community do not realize this fully..."

"Perhaps
the world was still too immersed in the old system of nation states, and
in all the old international balance-of-power arrangements, to hear what
Wojtyla was saying. Or perhaps Wojtyla himself was reckoned as no more
than an isolated figure hailing from an isolated country that has long
since been pointedly written out of the global power equation....Whatever
the reason, it would seem that no one who heard or later read what Karol
Wojtyla said that day had any idea that he was pointing to a competition
he already saw on the horizon: a competition between the world's only
three internationally based power structures for truly global hegemony."

Back
in 1992, one U.S. news magazine reported on a rather unusual work of art
for the Pontiff:

Artist
Presents World Symbol to Pope In Rome

"John
Paul II has the world in his hand in the symbol for the seal of the New
World Order which was officially presented at the Vatican on May 27, 1992.
With him in the symbol are George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev.

"In
September 1991 the NRI Trumpet printed part of the July interview with
the symbol's artist. He told NRI that the official unveiling of the symbol
would take place in Rome between September and December of 1991, unless
"some variables occurred to delay the presentation...." In the July interview
the artist only spoke in general terms about the symbol for the seal of
the New World Order which he had been commissioned to design.

"However,
in a June 17, 1992, telephone interview with the seal's artist Richard
Barile, a black coral jewelry designer, he told Kathleen Hayes that the
official unveiling of the symbol had occurred at the Vatican on May 27,
1992. When Hayes spoke with him on June 17th, Barile had just returned
from Rome.

"I made
the presentation to the Pope in person. I talked with him, held his hand
and kissed his ring," said Barile who has an exclusive jewelry shop in
the Grand Cayman Islands. He also said that many cardinals were present
for the unveiling, but George Bush and Mikhail Gorbechev who were originally
scheduled to be present, were not.

"Barile
claims that soon after he presented the sculptured piece to Pope John
Paul II, "The Pope announced over the loudspeaker in St. Peter's Square
four times in such a loud domineering voice that it rang out through the
city, Cayman Islands is here with the World at Peace, the pope bellowed."

"The
symbol which is eighteen inches in height and width, features stand-up
figures of Pope John Paul II, George Bush and Mikhail Gorbechev. "The
pope was sculpted in his full costume in gold with the world in his right
hand which is raised high, and it was presented as all the powers of the
world at peace with God," said Barile, "That's how it was presented, and
that is the way they accepted it." Barile said the pope's cape was in
gold with yellow sapphires. He is holding the staff with the crucifix
in his left hand and the world in his other. Barile was asked why the
pope is depicted that way, "Because the world is in his hands," he said.

"Each
man's image is made from black coral, a very rare species that only grows
along the equator throughout the world, "all the accessories like the
face, feet, hands, and the buttons on the jackets are in gold. It was
quite impressive," said Barile.

"The
first media exposure of the piece was the next day, May 28, 1992, on the
Pope's Telepace, his own television station which features Vatican news
two hours twice daily. The Vatican's Telepace opened the show with the
symbol. Barile said the Vatican intends to open each day on Telepace with
a close-up of the piece. It will remain at the Vatican until the end of
history "as we Christians know history," said Barile. Barile said each
of the men in the symbol is set on a separate black coral piece then on
a marble piece....

"Last
year Barile told NRI that the piece he was working on was the symbol for
the seal and that it would represent a global political seal."

There
are more than 1.1 billion Catholics around the world. The Catholic Church
has thousands of years steeped in tradition and one of those was outlined
in the Allentown-Morning
Call dated February 11, 1939, which carried these headlines: Pope
Pius XI on His Death Bed. This front page story shows Pope Pius XI on
his dead bed in Vatican City. The Holy Father died at the age of 81. The
story was titled: 3 Caskets Are Ordered To House Pope's Body.

"Vatican
City, Feb. 10 (AP)--Vatican workmen were ordered today to make ready three
caskets in which the body of Pope Pius XI will be buried in the grottoes
of St. Peters.

"The
Pontiff's body will be placed in them in an elaborate funeral service,
observing traditions centuries old. The inner one, in which the body will
lie, is to be of cypress wood lined with red satin, having a cross of
walnut on the cover. It will be placed inside a second of lead, a quarter
of an inch thick and weighing nearly 900 pounds. Both caskets will be
placed inside the third, made of polished elm. It's cover will be surmounted
by a cross, but will have beside that a skull and cross bones and an inscription
and coat of arms."

Catholics
around the world now begin to mourn and await the gathering of the cardinals
who will travel to Rome to elect the next head of the Church to spread
the word of peace and hope throughout the world. The 117 cardinals will
all meet for the conclave in Vatican City and are expected to begin the
process of putting God's next representative as head of the Church within
the next three weeks.

President
Bush called Pope John Paul II a "champion of human dignity" and is expected
to attend the funeral along with heads of state from around the world.

Catholics
around the world now begin to mourn and await the gathering of the cardinals
who will travel to Rome to elect the next head of the Church to spread
the world of peace and hope throughout the world...